The impact of flash memory on data center design will continue to be felt for many years as this disruptive technology permeates the IT infrastructure. What are the significant trends for CIOs and IT management surrounding flash technology? Join this webinar from Fusion-io to learn about the various ways to deploy flash and the significance of the different architectural approaches, hybrid vs. all-flash storage models, the expanding definition of hybrid storage, and criteria for choosing the right flash implementation for your data center.

The data center is evolving to encompass all manners of architecture from server-less aka functions-as- a-service to containers and microservices while balancing more mature constructs like virtualization and software-defined constructs. The reality is that the same fundamental issues abound while new challenges will appear.

In this session, we will discuss how to monitor data centers with discipline to handle the old and new pain points that will arise in 2020.

- What will 2020 data centers look like? Who will be the key providers of services?

- How do I keep my career viable in 2020?

- What should I put into practice to deliver success in 2020 data centers?

Any organization that takes a moment to study the data on their primary storage system will quickly realize that the majority (as much as 90 percent) of data that is stored on it has not been accessed for months if not years. Moving this data to a secondary tier of storage could free up massive amount of capacity, eliminating a storage upgrade for years. Making this analysis frequently is called data management, and proper management of data can not only reduce costs it can improve data protection, retention and preservation.

Computer users aren’t top data producers anymore. Machines are. Raw data from sensors, labs, forensics, and exploration are surging into data centers and overwhelming traditional storage. There is a solution: High performance, massively scale-out NAS with data-aware intelligence. Join us as Jeff Cobb, VP of Product Management at Qumulo and Taneja Group Senior Analyst Jeff Kato explain Qumulo’s data-aware scale-out NAS and its seismic shift in storing and processing machine data. We will review how customers are using Qumulo Core, and Nick Rathke of the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute will join us to share how SCI uses Qumulo to cut raw image processing from months to days.

In every industry, demand for IT capacity continues to grow. Digitalization, the Internet of Things and cloud computing are just a few of the factors that require vastly increased compute, data and networking resources.
The solution is to go hyperscale: in other words, to reimagine the data center in order to scale beyond the cost and capacity limitations of today’s architecture. Hyperscale data centers are smarter, more flexible and better able to achieve increased resource utilization levels while reducing total cost of ownership

At the core of cloud (public, private, hybrid) next generation data centers are software defined data infrastructures that exist to protect, preserve and serve applications, data along with their resulting information services. Software defined data infrastructure core components include hardware, software servers and storage configured (defined) to provide various services enabling application Performance Availability Capacity and Economics (PACE). Just as there are different types of environments, applications along with workloads various options, technologies as well as techniques exist for cloud services (and underlying data infrastructures). Join us in this session to discuss trends, technologies, tools, techniques and services options for cloud infrastructures.

Topics include:
- Data Infrastructures exist to support applications and their underlying resource needs
- Software Defined Infrastructures (SDDI) are what enable Software Defined Data Centers and clouds
- Various types of clouds along with cloud services that determine how resources get defined
- When, where, why and how to use cloud Infrastructures along with associated resources

In this part of the series, “Everything You Wanted To Know about Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask,” we’re going to be focusing on the network aspect of storage systems.

As with any technical field, it’s too easy to dive into the jargon of the pieces and expect people to know exactly what you mean. Unfortunately, some of the terms may have alternative meanings in other areas of technology. In this Webcast, we look at some of those terms specifically and discuss them as they relate to storage networking systems.

For people who are familiar with Data Center Technology, whether it be Compute, Programming, or even Storage itself, some of these concepts may seem intuitive and obvious… until you start talking to people who are really into this stuff. This series of Webcasts will help be your Secret Decoder Ring to unlock the mysteries of what is going on when you hear these conversations.

This session will provide detailed data centre metrics on the supply/demand landscape for colocation providers operating in the Singapore market. We take it one step further by segmenting Singapore into three primary districts or sub-regions to capture the nuance in each data centre hub location. How much data centre square feet, critical power is currently available and utilized in Singapore? And more importantly how much revenue is being generated by these third party service provider data centres? Where is it now and where is it headed? We will unwrap our detailed revenue and capacity projections from 2016-2020 while providing analytical insight on the factors driving growth.

Next generation data centers are filling the industry with buzz worthy tech concepts like hybrid IT, clouds, software defined anything, containers and micro-services. These sometimes disparate constructs can solve the same problem in multiple ways. As such connected context will be key to effectively and efficiently managing application performance across these next generation data centers.

In this session, we will be discussing how to monitor with discipline across next generation data centers.
1. What are next generation data centers?

2. How do IT organizations manage and optimize operational efficacy of these next gen data centers?

Are you looking for a solution that will allow you to move fast and innovate quickly?

In our session, we will explain how you can implement a flexible and modular architecture that will meet the performance and efficiency requirements of traditional and cloud-native applications. How you can start with a small deployment, and then flexibly scale out to support dynamic workloads and evolving business needs.

From a recent IDC study; we will share with you the business value outcomes of using a Hyper Converged system along with the expected return of investment (ROI)

One of the biggest issues facing organizations today is extracting intelligence from data residing in multiple silos across the datacenter. HPE Vertica 8 provides organizations with a unique, analyze-in-place, unified architecture that enables businesses to continually gain intelligence from their information, wherever it lives. HPE Vertica 8 also includes core data movement and orchestration enhancements, resulting in up to 700 percent faster data loading for hundreds of thousands of columns, simplified data loading from Amazon S3, and comprehensive visual monitoring of Apache Kafka data streams. With this webinar we will have key individuals from HPE Vertica team to deep-dive into the latest innovations included as part of HPE Vertica 8 release.

It’s apropos that the application is at the center of disruptive innovation. It is the momentum changer, providing both critical mass and atmospheric-shattering velocity. And any company can disrupt their industry or any adjacent industry, if they create the right application. The stack abides. Does this application focus change since there are a multitude of shifting possibilities provided by software-defined infrastructure?

In this session, we will discuss how to monitor your application stack with discipline to keep the application stack optimal.

·How do I manage applications efficiently and effectively in the ever-changing Software Defined Data Center?

·How do I put into practice skills and techniques to ensure acceptable Quality-of-Service (QoS) in a continuous service integration and continuous service delivery environment?

In the evolutionary journey of the enterprise data center, key inflection points drive adoption of new technologies such as virtualization, converged infrastructure, cloud, and containers. As business demands drive faster IT acceleration and innovation, new architectures have emerged giving rise to the Software Defined Data Center. Join this webinar to gain knowledge and understanding of the key trends affecting today’s data center, the components of a SDDC, and what you need to know to align your data center plans with the future of your business.

Data center transformation with server and network virtualization are leading to agile IT environments that accelerate business initiatives and deliver more responsive applications.

How can security itself be made more elastic and agile in Software-Defined Data Centers?

A vision for Software-Defined Security is introduced, and a three-part framework will outline how network security is evolving across all layers of the network architecture, from the data plane to the control plane to the management plane.

Check out this sneak preview of what's to come in our Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Summit! Join us live on BrightTALK December 6-8, 2016 to hear from leading industry experts on HCI, Network Management, and more!

Welcome to this first part of the webcast series, where we’re going to take an irreverent, yet still informative look, at the parts of a storage solution in Data Center architectures. We’re going to start with the very basics – The Naming of the Parts. We’ll break down the entire storage picture and identify the places where most of the confusion falls. Join us in this first webcast – Part Chartreuse – where we’ll learn:

•What an initiator is
•What a target is
•What a storage controller is
•What a RAID is, and what a RAID controller is
•What a Volume Manager is
•What a Storage Stack is

With these fundamental parts, we’ll be able to place them into a context so that you can understand how all these pieces fit together to form a Data Center storage environment.

Oh, and why are the parts named after colors, instead of numbered? Because there is no order to these webcasts. Each is a standalone seminar on understanding some of the elements of storage systems that can help you learn about technology without admitting that you were faking it the whole time! If you are looking for a starting point – the absolute beginning place – start with this one. We’ll be using these terms in all the other presentations.

As awareness of the potential benefits of a Software Defined Data Centre has begun to resonate around CxO’s, the value and importance of disaster recovery provisioning has been challenged by the notion that clustering and high availability could be sufficient to accommodate the recovery needs (i.e. no DR provisioning is required).

In this webinar we'll look at the significant risks and pitfalls that a 'non DR' strategy can pose and learn about the five step programme to optimise your chances of recovery when working with Public Cloud providers.

With today’s pressures on lowering our carbon footprint and cost constraints within organizations, IT departments are increasingly in the front line to formulate and enact an IT strategy that greatly improves energy efficiency and the overall performance of data centers.

This channel will cover the strategic issues on ‘going green’ as well as practical tips and techniques for busy IT professionals to manage their data centers. Channel discussion topics will include:
- Data center efficiency, monitoring and infrastructure management;
- Data center design, facilities management and convergence;
- Cooling technologies and thermal management
And much more